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	The Coffee House - WorkLife - Mark Cohen THE “LIVING WAGE” AND STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT OF LABOR LAWS Now that Maryland has the nation’s first statewide “living wage” law, it needs to be enforced. That job falls to Tom Perez, the state Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. A former federal prosecutor, Perez laments that enforcement of Maryland’s labor laws on behalf of low-wage workers largely disappeared under the prior administration of Gov... Keywords: labor; living wage Downloads: 66
	The Coffee House - Forum - Mark Cohen Former congressman and NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume discusses what issues are most important to him in his race for US Senate from Maryland. Keywords: living wage; HIV; global warming Downloads: 218
	The Living Wage Coalition Transit Workshop On November 20, 2010 the Living Wage Coalition of San Francisco held a day long forum on numerous issues that affect San Franciscans. This is a one-hour unedited video of that day's Transit workshop Keywords: Transit; San Francisco; the Living Wage Coalition Downloads: 8
	San Francisco Living Wage Coalition workshop - Social Security On November 20, 2010 the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition conducted a day long set workshops on issues that affect San Franciscans. This video is of the workshop that discussed current threats to Federal safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Keywords: Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid; San Francisco Living Wage Coalition Downloads: 8
	Raise Maryland Campaign Launch - Raise Maryland Raise Maryland, a major new effort to increase the stateâs minimum wage, will launch on Tuesday, January 22nd in Annapolis. The campaign, which is comprised of a coalition of over 20 community, labor, immigrant, civil rights, and faith organizations, seeks to pass a statewide minimum wage increase during the 2013 legislative session. The proposed legislation, to be introduced by Maryland Senator Robert J... Keywords: Raise Maryland; Minimum Wage; Maryland; Labor; Living Wage Downloads: 28
	The Public Good 4/17/2012 City of Buffalo Seasonal Sanitation Workers - Partnership for the Public Good The Partnership for the Public Good hosts a weekly radio show, the Public Good, each Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on WUFO AM 1080. Each week will feature a PPG Partner or other person working toward the public good and discuss some of the region's hottest issues. Hosted by PPG co-director Sam Magavern. This week's topic: City of Buffalo Seasonal Sanitation workers Abraham McKinney and Timothy Johnson Keywords: Partnership for the Public Good; Sam Magavern; Living Wage; Seasonal Sanitation Workers Downloads: 2
	The Public Good 4/17/2012 Seasonal Sanitation Workers - Partnership for the Public Good The Partnership for the Public Good hosts a weekly radio show, the Public Good, each Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on WUFO AM 1080. Each week will feature a PPG Partner or other person working toward the public good and discuss some of the region's hottest issues. Hosted by PPG co-director Sam Magavern. This week's topic: City of Buffalo Seasonal Sanitation workers Abraham McKinney and Timothy Johnson Keywords: Partnership for the Public Good; Sam Magavern; City of Buffalo; Seasonal Sanitation Workers; Living Wage Downloads: 1
	Union Workers & Occupy Boston demand more from MassPort - Annie Shreffler Members of SEUI 615 and local activist groups in East Boston met to add their voice and their demands to the growing Occupy movement. Workers testify to frustration at low wages, mistreatment from employers and exaspiration over working conditions. Speaking: Rocio Saenz, Kettly Dettoux, Janeth Quiroz, Gladys Vega, Elsa Sanchez, Joseph Gomes and Christine O'Connell. Translation by Jeb Mays of SEIU 615. Keywords: Occupy; SEIU; Labor; Union; Logan Airport; MassPort; living wage; workers; wages Downloads: 29
	Building Bridges: Emergency Unemployed Civil Disobedience in NYC; Living Wage Protest by Clergy - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:35 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** NYC Unemployed Arrested Protesting Benefits Termination With Members of Flashmobs4jobs Workers who have exceeded the 99 week maximum limit on unemployment benefits (called 99ers) were arrested for blocking traffic on Varick Street at a demonstration outside the NYS Dept.of labor... Keywords: unemployment; 99ers; economic crisis; jobs; fiscal stimulus; living wage bill; labor religion coalition Downloads: 56
	The Coffee House - September 2007 - Mark Cohen IN THE NAME OF 9/11: DESTROYING DEMOCRACY IN ORDER TO SAVE IT? Newspaper headlines are chock full of reports about secret CIA prisons, deportation of terrorism suspects to countries that torture, millions of disappearing White House e-mails, warrantless searches of communications, and new, pseudo-forms of document classification by the government. Is all of this justified, even mandated, by the post-9/11 reality? Well, we do need to be vigilant about terrorism, says Patrice McDermott, director o... Keywords: terrorism, security; civil liberties; labor; living wage; climate; music; poetry; dance Downloads: 72
	Students Hunger Strike for a Living Wage - David Swanson Hunter Link of the University of Virginia's Living Wage Campaign explains why he and other students stopped eating and why workers at UVA can and should be paid a living wage. Keywords: living wage; uva; university of virginia; david swanson; hunter link; hunger strike; nonviolence Downloads: 96
	Students in uproar over immigration raid at SOAS - Made for Resonance FM by Frederika Whitehead Frederika Whitehead talks to students and staff at the School of Oriental and African Studies, part of the University of London, after a shock immigration raid that resulted in 9 cleaners being seized. Eight of the cleaners have since been deported and a row has broken out between the school and the cleaning contractors - both deny alerting immigration officials to the cleaners status. Staff, students and their unions allege that the tip-off was made by the cleaning contractors, ISS, and was in ... Keywords: soas; immigration raid; iss cleaning; unions; london living wage; resonance fm; frederika whitehead Downloads: 15
	Twit Wit Radio May 12 2013 Pledge Drive Special The Twit Wit Players with the Berkeley City Council, rent control, minimum living wage, George Orwell, 1984 and more.Performers: Carol Denney, Geoff Geiger, Kenneth McGee, Rich Kalman, Lorri Holt, James King, David Wintergeezer, Producer George Coates, Director Bubba Tyrone, music by Gracie and Rachel duo, keyboards Cavett Hughes and & board operator L. DuBois Keywords: Berkeley City Council; rent control; minimum living wage; George Orwell; 1984; KPFA; Twitwit
	We want: - Sasha Kimel Occupy Ann Arbor Third General Assembly Liberty Plaza 10/20/11 Keywords: ows; #occupywallstreet; #occupywallst; occupy; ann arbor; occupy ann arbor; wall street; health care; living wage; tax; oil; public transport; michigan
	BeyondThePale01_08_2012 Operation Cast Lead, Three Years Later; Living Wage legislation stalled in NYCity Council; Emma Goldman biographer Vivian Gornick Keywords: Beyond The Pale; WBAI; Gaza; Israel; Palestine; Operation Cast Lead; Michel Warshawski; Brad Lander; New York City Council; Living Wage; Christine Quinn; Vivian Gornick; Emma Goldman Downloads: 113
	2020 Visions - Work (18th August 2010, Resonance FM) - Resonance FM 2020 Visions - Work This week, K Biswas and Rys Farthing look at the world of work, looking at wages, job creation and the future of employment in the UK. Contributors include former Mayor of London, Labour's Ken Livingstone; founder of the journal Soundings Professor Doreen Massey; the right-of-centre think-tanks Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Justice; Deborah Littman from Unison; Head of the Living Wage campaign at London Citizens, Rhys Moore; Resonance FM's own anarchist agitator I... Keywords: Ken Livingstone; Mayor of London; Labour; Doreen Massey; Soundings; Policy Exchange; Centre for Social Justice; Unison; Living Wage; London Citizens; Ian Bone; Class War; hedgefunds Downloads: 402
	Mass Strategy Meeting in Atlanta - Gary C. "Where do we go from here" was the question asked at the second Mass Strategy Meeting held on May 30th at Troy Davis Park in Atlanta, Ga. A coalition of progressive organizations has formed in Atlanta and their main goal is to go on the offensive, both legislatively and in local communities, to build a more just society based on Human Rights. About 50 to 60 people attended this meeting and began creating a framework to provide food, housing, health care, education transportation and a good job t... Keywords: Public Meeting, Public Space, Self Determination, Occupy Atlanta, Occupy The Hood, Atlanta Progressives, Human Rights, Democracy, Food Sustainability, Housing, Public Space, Health Care, Education, Transportation, Living Wage, Workplace Democracy, Non Discrimination Downloads: 44
	Building Bridges: Southern Workers, Occupy Activists and Undocumented Immigrants Protest at DNC - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************************** Southern Workers and Occupy Protest at the DNC With . Angaza Laughinghouse, Pres. ,UE Local 150, North Carolina Public Service Workers, . Rev. STEPHEN COPLEY, Dir., Arkansas Interfaith Alliance and Chairman, Ntl. Nonpartisan Let Justice Roll Living Wage Coalition, ... Keywords: STEPHEN COPLEY; national nonpartisan Let Justice Roll Living Wage Coalition; Angaza Laughinghouse; UE; Local 150; North Carolina Public Service Workers; Yen Alcala; Coalition to March on Wall Street South; Occupy Charlotte; DNC protests; Southern Workers Assembly Downloads: 17
	People United - December 3, 2010 - Allan Campbell Episode features a conversation broadcast live in the KOOP Studio with Richard Troxell of House the Homeless and the Universal Living Wage campaign about his book _Looking Up at the Bottom Line: The Struggle for a Living Wage!_, a memoir focusing on urban poverty and grassroots organizing. Keywords: People United; 91.7 FM; KOOP Radio; Austin TX; community radio; Richard Troxell; House the Homeless; Universal Living Wage; urban poverty; community activism; community organizing; grassroots organizing; consumer advocacy; Ralph Nader; Unsafe at Any Speed; Max Weiner; Philadelphia; Austin City Council; homeless; homelessness; Bruce Todd; Kirk Watson; No Camping Ordinance; Austin Police Department; APD; Bergstrom Air Base; Bergstrom Air Force Base; Austin-Bergstrom International Aiport; McKinney Act; minimum wage; living wage; housing; housing costs; human dignity; social justice; economic justice; history; current events Downloads: 6
	UAW Autoworker Press Conference on Future of Manufacturing, Health Care & Green Jobs - Part 5 (Q&A-2) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched to the Rayburn House Office Building and held a press conference to voice their support for Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, the critical role American manufacturing must play in any serious attempt to address climate change, and the urgent need... Keywords: UAW; press conference; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 37
	UAW Autoworker Press Conference on Future of Manufacturing, Health Care & Green Jobs - Part 4 (Q&A-1) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched to the Rayburn House Office Building and held a press conference to voice their support for Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, the critical role American manufacturing must play in any serious attempt to address climate change, and the urgent need... Keywords: UAW; press conference; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 74
	Part 3 - UAW Autoworkers Confront Republican Sen. Shelby in D.C. Office (Final 10-minutes) (Part 3 of 3) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched, held a press conference, met with Democratic Congressman and author of Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, John Conyers of Michigan, and confronted Republican Senator Richard Shelby on his views regarding unions, the value of domesti... Keywords: senate; Republicans; UAW; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; platitudes; Senator; Richard Shelby; Bob Corker; Jim Demint; South Carolina; Tennessee; Alabama; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 85
	Part 2 - UAW Autoworkers Confront Republican Sen. Shelby in D.C. Office (Second 10-minutes) (Part 2 of 3) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched, held a press conference, met with Democratic Congressman and author of Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, John Conyers of Michigan, and confronted Republican Senator Richard Shelby on his views regarding unions, the value of domesti... Keywords: senate; Republicans; UAW; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; platitudes; Senator; Richard Shelby; Bob Corker; Jim Demint; South Carolina; Tennessee; Alabama; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 85
	Part 1 - UAW Autoworkers Confront Republican Sen. Shelby in D.C. Office (First 10-minutes) (Part 1 of 3) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched, held a press conference, met with Democratic Congressman and author of Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, John Conyers of Michigan, and confronted Republican Senator Richard Shelby on his views regarding unions, the value of domesti... Keywords: senate; Republicans; UAW; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; platitudes; Senator; Richard Shelby; Bob Corker; Jim Demint; South Carolina; Tennessee; Alabama; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 249
	UAW Autoworkers Confront Republican Sen. Shelby in D.C. Office Over Future of American Manufacturing • December 8, 2008 On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched, held a press conference, met with Democratic Congressman and author of Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, John Conyers of Michigan, and confronted Republican Senator Richard Shelby on his views regarding unions, the value of domestic manufacturin... Keywords: senate; Republicans; UAW; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans, platitudes; Senator; Richard Shelby; Bob Corker; Jim Demint; South Carolina; Tennessee; Alabama; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 340
	UAW Autoworker Press Conference on Future of Manufacturing, Health Care & Green Jobs - Part 1 (Frank Hammer) On December 8 2008, active and retired UAW members from across the U.S. traveled to Washington D.C. to put a human face on the real issues underlying the future of the domestic auto industry, manufacturing, and the American working family. The workers marched to the Rayburn House Office Building and held a press conference to voice their support for Single-Payer Bill H.R. 676, the critical role American manufacturing must play in any serious attempt to address climate change, and the urgent need... Keywords: UAW; press conference; auto bailout; automotive; industry; union; auto workers; strike; caravan; Washington D.C; media; labor; workers' rights; health care; HR 676; green jobs; environment; transportation; manufacturing; domestic; free trade; fair trade; NAFTA; union busting; race to the bottom; globalization; competitiveness; education; innovation; knowledge economy; higher education; plans; climate change; living wage; economic crisis; banking; managerial downsizing; outsourcing; patriotism; ideology; capitalism; global warming; organize; direct action Downloads: 85
	Twit Wit Radio May 5 2013 Pledge Drive Special Berkeley Kid with Lord Buckley, Groucho Marx, Patty Hearst, Osama Bin Laden, Kathryn Bigelow, Charlie Rose, Berkeley City Council, the sister city program, nuclear families, Angela Davis, minimum wage, peoples' park, free speech, Telegraph Avenue, living wage law, City of Berkeley, Tora Bora, Zero Dark Thirty, water boarding, torture, Pentagon Film Office, CIA, Tora Bora, & Acute Belief Disorder.Performers: Zinga One, Lorri Holt, Geoff Geiger, Kenneth McGee, Carol Denney, Jaden, James King, Davi... Keywords: Lord Buckley; Groucho Marx; Patty Hearst; Osama Bin Laden; Kathryn Bigelow; Charlie Rose; Berkeley City Council; sister city program; nuclear families; Angela Davis; minimum wage; peoples' park; free speech; Telegraph Avenue; living wage law; City of Berkeley; Tora Bora; Zero Dark Thirty; water boarding; torture; Pentagon Film Office; CIA; Tora Bora; Acute Belief Disorder; kpfa.org; Twitter; tweet; Zinga One; Lorri Holt; Geoff Geiger; Kenneth McGee; Carol Denney; Jaden; James King; David Wintergeezer; George Coates; Bubba Tyrone; Berkeley Kid; Gracie And Rachel